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I just went 3 days without sleep to see what i-banking felt like...honestly I don't believe ANY of you! (My hourly breakdown)
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- (Monkey, 31 )
- on 1/4/10 at 8:45am
No, this is not a joke. So we've all heard from multiple sources that the typical first-year analyst's day goes from 6AM through 3AM, leaving about 3 hours of sleep in-between. Many of you still even had chances to work out.
So I tried to emulate the exact mental and physical strain to see what it felt like (and if I could take it). Don't worry -- this is my winter break.
Background: I'm 21 YRO, around the age of most first-year analysts. I'm a pretty healthy guy.
I started 3 days ago:
Saturday 6AM - Wake up
Saturday 11PM - Not tired at all yet. Dig up next semester's "Intro to Stochastic Models" textbook and start cramming the first 3 chapters.
Saturday 3AM - Starting to feel drowsy, not to mention incredibly BORED and exhausted from doing textbook review questions non-stop for 4 hours. I grab some redbull, took a shower.
Saturday 7AM - First 24 hours awake. In order to emulate the physical strain as well, I grab my coat and walked (not drive) 20 minutes to McDonalds for breakfast then walked 20 minutes back.
Saturday 12PM - Ate lunch. That did it. The extra load of food must've knocked me out because I don't even remember falling asleep.
Saturday 3PM - Woke up (my stereo was still blasting). Got 3 hours of sleep. Back to "work."
Saturday 11PM - Had some drinks with friends. (to emulate drinking and partying on no-sleep)
Sunday 2AM - left the bar early. I was about to pass out, not from alcohol, but I was so godammn tired!!
- Went home. Set alarm for 5AM. Passed out asleep -
Sunday 5AM - Took cold shower. Took out stochastic models textbook again.
Sunday 10PM - Sat at desk all day and I've worked through 50% of the book by now. (completely new material). ENORMOUS headache. Drank 2 cans of Rockstar energy. By now it took me 10 minutes just to read a new paragraph. My eyes could barely open and I couldn't even multiply 346x17 by hand without getting it wrong! I could barely comprehend what I was reading, even after switching over to my USA Today paper.
Monday 2AM - My entire body is now FREEZING despite my thermostat set at 82F. I'm getting bad chest pains. My left hand felt numb. I set my alarm for 6AM and passed out.
Monday 6AM - Took me 40 minutes of hitting snooze to finally get up. I have a MASSIVE HEADACHE the size of texas, mild chest pains, and am about to throw up. I took a shower, ate breakfast, and came onto WSO to let you guys know that this is IMPOSSIBLE!
By the time I hit 36 hours of no sleep, either I passed out without me knowing it, or my comprehension and mental abilities shrunk to the size of an acorn. There is no way in hell a first-year analyst won't be making 100000000 errors on his excel spreadsheets at this comprehension level. Also, I'm sure I'm not the only one who gets bad chest pains doing this. I'm a really healthy/athletic guy too.
Also, wasn't there some research done a while back that continuous sleep-loss can lead to sudden death? I don't see any analysts collapsing.
So in conclusion, I DO NOT believe that the typical analyst works from 6AM to 3AM day after day, and STILL have time and energy to hit the gym and go clubbing. It's biologically INFEASIBLE unless you want an irregular heartbeat somewhere along the way.
Prove me wrong, please. ps: I just got notes for half the textbook already for NEXT SEMESTER. So some good came out of this :D
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- jackofalltrades
- (Senior Gorilla, 784 )
- on 1/4/10 at 9:45am
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- MoneyKingdom
- (Gorilla, 629 )
- on 1/4/10 at 9:47am
First of all, thanks for sharing your rather mundane story. Second, most analysts do not work 6AM-3AM , those hours are exceptions, not the rule. Generally speaking, its about 9AM-2AM..on average. "biologically infeasible"? Its definetely feasible, strongly unrecommended, however. Yes IB sucks, and that's why no one does it for over 5 years.1
no.. a typical analyst does not work those hours everday, if he or she did for two years, they would die
there are certainly weeks/months like that, but the lighter days help you catch up on sleep and whatnot. I don't know if your test is a joke but its its pretty funny, considering it only emulates being tired and crushing red bulls. If you want it to be more realistic...I guess.. stare at a computer screen for long periods of time, constantly type on your keyboard, induce a sense of pressure or stress, have a few buddies to burn the midnight oil with.
there are some analysts on the street in certain groups who get absolutely crushed and work absurd amounts. but for the most part, a typical analyst does not work 6AM - 3AM everyday. Even if they work till 3am often, they will get in at 9:30 to 10:00, leaving them with 5-6 hours of sleep, which is manageable.
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- (Monkey, 31 )
- on 1/4/10 at 9:54am
"Even if they work till 3am often, they will get in at 9:30 to 10:00, leaving them with 5-6 hours of sleep, which is manageable."
Analysts can come in at 9AM?? Wow that's a first. I guess there's a lot to clear up here because up till now, everything I've read, including the "Day in a life of a Banker" Vault Guides, has analysts waking up at 6AM and getting to work at 7.
- Marcus_Halberstram
- (Senior Neanderthal, 5,864 )
- on 1/4/10 at 9:56am
#1- You need to go make some friends
#2- 36 hours without sleep is not as brutal as you describe, you're obviously a huge poontang
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- (Monkey, 31 )
- on 1/4/10 at 10:10am
If i-banking hours are more lax than I've heard, than why does everyone make a big deal about it? 9AM to 3AM isn't much different from the lawyer who works 9AM to 7PM, then continues working at his home office till 3AM or the surgeon who gets called in at 10PM to perform a 4 hour surgery...
I have family members who are IT Consultants and, even though they get home at 7PM, they rarely talk to their family because they have to continue working late into the night...my uncle works for a top software company making $170k/yr as a developer and has a quick dinner with his family at 8PM, before working at home till 3AM.
Anyone who makes more than 90k usually has lots of work to do, even if they come home earlier, so then what's the big fuss about i-banking hours? Shit happens in IT as well...uncle used to tell me his company would have database crashes at 4AM and they'd have to ring his blackberry.
Wait, so you only went 36 hours with no sleep (not really since you took naps and all kinds of stuff)? I regularly do 24 hours without sleep and I am old (27). I think it is something you acquire over time. Suck it up, don't gorge or food and sleep on your lunch break if you need to. I honestly think if you had to do a week of insane hours you would be sleeping during lunch and not going out at all. Interesting little experiment you did though.
- GoodBread
- ?
- (Senior Neanderthal, 4,777 )
- on 1/4/10 at 10:46am
I think you got your 7AM idea from reading S&T stuff. You can't mix and match job descriptions to create the worst typical day ever.
Comparing IT and Ibanking is ridiculous. Not because of relative 'prestige' or anything like that, but because working from home on an IT project is very different from spreading comps at 2am in an office. Furthermore, nobody at an established IT company is forced to work 90 hour weeks. Sure, there can be a crazy week on occasion, but those hours are the norm at some IBs and PE shops.
- stk123
- (Senior Orangutan, 451 )
- on 1/4/10 at 11:14am
IBD doesn't come in until 9 am +/- 1 hour, it is S&T and ER that comes in at 6am, 7am.
36 hours without sleep is no problem at all. I couple of weeks ago, I woke up to work at 6am got home packed my suitcase and watched TV all night, because I had a 10 hour plane flight the next day and wanted to sleep on the flight. Got on the plane at 9 am, waited for over two hours before it took ate some breakfast, then watched a movie before I finally popped a double dose of OTC sleeping pills, which work pretty good, before going to sleep. That is about 30 hours, while a girl next to me used the same strategy, but she passed out the moment she got into her seat.
I once went 50 hours without sleep while camping under tents: I woke up one day, started drinking in the evening and continued into the night. Got drunk, sobered up in the morning, got drunk again in the afternoon, sobered up in the evening, and then got drunk again at night before finally going to sleep sometime before noon two days later.
It is easy to handle a few days without sleep or even a week with minimal sleep. But I could not work from 6am to 3am for an extended period of time (more than 7-10 days). I would simply quit the job if it required me to work 21 hours a day or 147 hours a week (out of 168 hours total).
- PocketHandkerchief
- ?
- (Baboon, 120 )
- on 1/4/10 at 11:20am
Do you not study for finals?
- In reply to PocketHandkerchief
That was what I was thinking when I saw this post. I think I pulled at least a dozen all night sessions this last semester.
Let me tell you a story ....
21st birthday (on the Saturday).
- Woke up Friday 7am. Was during an internship, so arrived at work at 8.30am.
- Worked until 6pm.
- Got home (from client site) at 9pm.
- Went to a house party, got there at 11pm.
- Up all night, drinking and fooling around with this one girl
- Went back to her place at 4am
- Stayed up all night.
- Went home at 10am
- Straight into birthday celebrations with the family and close friends.
- Finished at 6pm
- Went out for pre-evening drinks.
- Got to the club at 11pm
- Left at 4am
- Went back to another girls' place
- Stayed up all night
- Got home at 11am
- Went to see my girlfriend (I was a cheating ass ... sue me, I was 21)
- Had lunch with her and spent the afternoon early/evening
- Got home at 7pm
- Back on the train (back to client site) had to do some work for the Monday morning.
- Got back to the hotel at 11pm
- Finally slept at 1am on the Monday
I was awake for 66 straight hours. I'm not gonna lie, towards the end, I was hearing stuff and felt like I was starting to lose my mind. I wouldn't ever do it again (I came close in Rio over Carnaval - 50 straight hours of partying), but I'm glad I did it.
36 hours is nothing to brag about.1 6
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- (Monkey, 31 )
- on 1/4/10 at 11:50am
Let me clarify: In my post, I did ultimately mean that it would be impossible to pull off for more than 2-3 days a week, 4 weeks a month. Once or twice is fine...but more than that, which was what I and many of my friends had believed what i-bankers went through, would be really tough to do which was what boggled me.
As for finals...I've studied till 5AM writing papers and cramming for a final or midterm that was at 9AM more than a few times a semester. I've gone 24 hours no sleep several times a month in college. But the difference was that right after that exam, I'd run back to my dorm and sleep for the next 10 hours and wake up at like 8PM.
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- (Monkey, 31 )
- on 1/4/10 at 11:53am
IConsult: IT's much easier to do when the activity you're doing is actually INTERESTING. Back in freshman/sophomore year, my frat would party frequently on thurs/fri/sat nights till 5AM and around 7AM I'd be still completely ECSTATIC and not tired at all. The combination of fun, dancing, jumping around, liquor and energy drinks makes it much easier to stay up. Comparing that to 2 hours of calculus 3 and I'm dozing off in no-time.
- Ortsman1
- ?
- (Senior Monkey, 87 )
- on 1/4/10 at 12:27pm
Ha. I love how you throw in your frat activity after everyone rains down on your clear and complete toolishness and lack of friends. The ferocity that you wrote that post with, and the fact that you actually stayed awake for 3 days during a break simply because you believed 1st year analysts are forced to, is kinda pathetic man.3
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- (Monkey, 31 )
- on 1/4/10 at 12:37pm
Ortsman1: how exactly does this in any way show I have a "lack of friends"? I'm not interested in getting into useless fights on a messageboard, but I don't see how this shows lack of friends? I'm at home for winter break and went to a bar with some guys I knew back in high school in my hometown....what more would you expect me to do at home? Bring my entire fraternity 7 states away from campus to come hang out?
- Bury_Bonds
- (Senior Monkey, 75 )
- on 1/4/10 at 12:43pm
If you are the analyst running the model for a live $5bn+ M&A transaction, you will pull at least one back-to-back pair of all-nighters, plus at least three additional all-nighters, all in the FIRST TWO WEEKS of the transaction.
The experience is nothing like reading a math textbook because your a$$ will be on the line and you will have several more senior bankers constantly grilling you. If you become seriously fatigued and more likely to make errors, then more senior resources will be dedicated to checking your work.
- dweezy
- (Senior Baboon, 211 )
- on 1/4/10 at 12:46pm
For the OP,
You can't simulate and model life. Life is dynamic and even though you were studying stochastics, your thought process is very linear...dare I say, robotic.
Reality and the pressures of situations determine your body's reaction, not some "plan". No matter how motivated you are there's no way your body can be stimulated to meet the pressures of a deadline, paying the bills, having three crying kids at home, etc...
In addition, all that Red Bull, Rockstar, Crack Rock shit is only going to fuck you up more. The combo of sleep deprivation and all that caffeine is a perfect recipe for a heart attack. Take a multi vitamin, eat real food, step outside of the box (go for a walk, play a video game, some shit to break the mental monotony) and most importantly, respect life and don't be an everything planning robot.
You're a kid, you're motivated, that's plenty for now. Take it easy and if you really need to prove to yourself that you can cut the long hours. Build up to it slowly like anything else, start with 24 and then work your way up. If you're in it for the right reasons, you'll have no problem doing the time when the situation calls for it.
Good luck.5
- Ortsman1
- ?
- (Senior Monkey, 87 )
- on 1/4/10 at 12:47pm
Becasue only a sad individual with a complete lack of social skills would purposefully subject themselves to three days of sleeplessness to prove to an anonymous message board that is is very difficult to do (no shit sherlock), all while operating under the totally wrong premise that all analysts regularly do this.
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- (Monkey, 31 )
- on 1/4/10 at 12:59pm
Ortsman1: I'm in the process of making a career choice...just wanted to see what it felt like. Especially in a career where this happens all the time, I want to see if this is the way I should be going. But apparently this makes me a loner with no social skills.
Insecure much? I don't get it. Were you picked on in high school?
- Ortsman1
- ?
- (Senior Monkey, 87 )
- on 1/4/10 at 1:00pm
Good luck with your choice man
- boutiquebank4life
- (Senior Gorilla, 923 )
- on 1/4/10 at 2:54pm
I'm sorry but this is the most ridiculously pathetic thing I've read on this site.
- El_Terrible
- (Senior Orangutan, 429 )
- on 1/4/10 at 5:10pm
^Agree with this guy.
- PiperJaffrayChiang
- (Senior Gorilla, 764 )
- on 1/4/10 at 5:32pm
you are my hero
also PLEASE tell this during an interview, it will make for a great story
We are excited to formally extend to you an offer to join Bank of Ameria
yeeeeeeehawwww:So in conclusion, I DO NOT believe that the typical analyst works from 6AM to 3AM day after day, and STILL have time and energy to hit the gym and go clubbing. It's biologically INFEASIBLE unless you want an irregular heartbeat somewhere along the way.
- Mayor Quimby
- (Senior Monkey, 85 )
- on 1/4/10 at 5:26pm
You really needed to stay up for 36 hours to reach that conclusion?
- eiffeltowered
- (Senior Orangutan, 407 )
- on 1/4/10 at 5:53pm
IConsult...how much cocaine were you on while partying?
You're all being really hard on the guy.. yeah not sleeping sucks. being all macho about it is all fine and good, but it still sucks. I think it's good for him to find out how his body responds to it before rather than after he starts work
- TheBuySideGirl
- (Baboon, 171 )
- on 1/4/10 at 7:42pm
IBD comes to work around 9:30 ~ 10:00 and leaves around 12~2 a.m.
Its really on a few occasions when they do 3-straight-all-nighters.
This would definitely be a fun story to tell on interviews, though. Nice Job.
- In reply to TheBuySideGirl
CoreDuo:This would definitely be a fun story to tell on interviews, though.
- Mayor Quimby
- (Senior Monkey, 85 )
- on 1/4/10 at 7:45pm
No, no, no (assuming this is serious). Bringing this up in a job interview is asking to get dinged.
- CompBanker
- (Human, 10,122 )
- on 1/4/10 at 8:12pm
Over the course of my two years, I only pulled back-to-back all-nighters twice, and I worked harder than probably any analyst in my class. I typically worked 9am to 2am when I was busy, with a random all-nighter thrown in every week or so to meet a deadline. On weekends you can typically get a full night sleep (~7 hrs) unless your associate is in the office with you, which sucks.
Your experiment lacks in a few ways. Something I think almost no one understands is how your body rapidly becomes accustomed to your lifestyle. When I was busy for an extended period of time, a 4am night wouldn't phase me. I'd still be at the top of my game. However, if you come back from xmas break and immediately have to pull an all-nighter, you'll be toast easily because your body resets. I had to pull an all-nighters the Sunday after Christmas last year and it absolutely sucked. I had a ton of sleep, but because I hadn't worked much for a couple of days, I was dying come 3am.
Another key thing that is lacking is what your motivation is for staying up late. The key difference between staying up all night studying for finals and staying up all night working, is when studying for finals, you can call it quits whenever you want. If you get exhausted, you can give up and go to bed and just wing the test the next day. Your grades may suffer, but no one is standing over you expecting you to do it. In banking, you've got an entire team standing over you (not physically), pressuring you to make sure you get it done, and get it done flawlessly. You can't just "go-to-bed" and take the lower grade, and not having that choice makes a difference.
- CrimsonBlaze88
- (Senior Baboon, 181 )
- on 1/4/10 at 8:28pm
Thank you for a great response that brings both reality and insight back into the conversation. Knowing that your body can adapt to the reduced sleep is very reassuring for people like me who are used to getting a full night's sleep every night.
- In reply to yeeeeeeehawwwwyeeeeeeehawwww:IConsult: IT's much easier to do when the activity you're doing is actually INTERESTING.
I see where you're coming from, but I posit that it isn't difficult to stay up for 36 hours for something inane like debugging 2000 lines of C++ code (I was a CS major) or coding in Haskell.
I've done both and lived to tell the tale. Not pretty, but certainly not as difficult as staying awake for 66 hours.eiffeltowered:IConsult...how much cocaine were you on while partying?
None. I naturally don't sleep many hours (4hrs is enough, more than 5hrs is too much)
- In reply to iBuy
IConsult:Let me tell you a story ....
- monkeyface
- ?
- (Senior Baboon, 175 )
- on 1/4/10 at 8:53pm
21st birthday (on the Saturday).
- Woke up Friday 7am. Was during an internship, so arrived at work at 8.30am.
- Worked until 6pm.
- Got home (from client site) at 9pm.
- Went to a house party, got there at 11pm.
- Up all night, drinking and fooling around with this one girl
- Went back to her place at 4am
- Stayed up all night.
- Went home at 10am
- Straight into birthday celebrations with the family and close friends.
- Finished at 6pm
- Went out for pre-evening drinks.
- Got to the club at 11pm
- Left at 4am
- Went back to another girls' place
- Stayed up all night
- Got home at 11am
- Went to see my girlfriend (I was a cheating ass ... sue me, I was 21)
- Had lunch with her and spent the afternoon early/evening
- Got home at 7pm
- Back on the train (back to client site) had to do some work for the Monday morning.
- Got back to the hotel at 11pm
- Finally slept at 1am on the Monday
I was awake for 66 straight hours. I'm not gonna lie, towards the end, I was hearing stuff and felt like I was starting to lose my mind. I wouldn't ever do it again (I came close in Rio over Carnaval - 50 straight hours of partying), but I'm glad I did it.
36 hours is nothing to brag about.
wow cool story bro
- In reply to monkeyfacemonkeyface:IConsult:Let me tell you a story ....
21st birthday (on the Saturday).
- Woke up Friday 7am. Was during an internship, so arrived at work at 8.30am.
- Worked until 6pm.
- Got home (from client site) at 9pm.
- Went to a house party, got there at 11pm.
- Up all night, drinking and fooling around with this one girl
- Went back to her place at 4am
- Stayed up all night.
- Went home at 10am
- Straight into birthday celebrations with the family and close friends.
- Finished at 6pm
- Went out for pre-evening drinks.
- Got to the club at 11pm
- Left at 4am
- Went back to another girls' place
- Stayed up all night
- Got home at 11am
- Went to see my girlfriend (I was a cheating ass ... sue me, I was 21)
- Had lunch with her and spent the afternoon early/evening
- Got home at 7pm
- Back on the train (back to client site) had to do some work for the Monday morning.
- Got back to the hotel at 11pm
- Finally slept at 1am on the Monday
I was awake for 66 straight hours. I'm not gonna lie, towards the end, I was hearing stuff and felt like I was starting to lose my mind. I wouldn't ever do it again (I came close in Rio over Carnaval - 50 straight hours of partying), but I'm glad I did it.
36 hours is nothing to brag about.
wow cool story bro
i did something similar once, towards the end i cannot hold tweezer plucking my eyebrow. it was so scary since i feel i cannot control my hand. i lost so much weight that week tho, straight drinking+no sleeping=rapid weight loss,which should be a bonus for a girl. lol.
- moneyneversleeps2
- (Orangutan, 257 )
- on 1/5/10 at 12:49am
Keep in mind that a good 50% of all adults are going to stretch the truth to make themselves look like 24/7 work-a-holic heros in a survival of the fittest type way. Especially with entry level analysts: they will gladly tell you about all the rounders they work to make it appear like Wall street is some sweatshop 90 miles west of Beijing. However, they will never mention the times they were able to take a nap, take an executive lunch, get their highlights retouched or reinvent their Facebook page in the middle of the day bc their bandwith was just that low. As mentioned above, Bankers probably average out the same amount of hours as Sales Managers, IT Developers and a host of other professions that make north of six figures. Those people just realize how low their salary truly is once they do the math and that's why they don't tell people how many hours they truly work.
Humorous post. Ignore most of the criticisms. IB is overrated. There are easier ways to make money.
I worked an a major firm (GS/MS/JPM) and switched to subprime mortgage lending before the massive bubble. I went from stimulating conversations among very bright and ambitious co-workers to working alongside dropouts selling to people who couldn't speak English. I made significantly more money and didn't work hard. Enough to go on and earn a PhD from a top school afterwards.
Now I'm back working in a different industry and am getting ready to start my own business. With all the intelligence on this board, the vast majority of you shouldn't have a problem earning well into the six-figures. No need to worry.
IB is no different than accounting. You learn basic skills, but you should really develop better operational skills, unless you are the type who can make it to MD or happen to live in a more affordable city. I never was. I wasn't good enough to make it that far in that type of system only to buy a tiny apartment in a cold city.
I have several friends in IB at the VP/Director level. They still have less than 100k of net worth. Hardly impressive. My friends that own Dry Cleaners and Beauty Supply shops in the ghetto have more money and better cash flow.
Banking is overrated. MBA's are joke degrees and the vast majority of bankers below the MD level aren't exactly wealthy. Mr. Braverman writes some very incisive commentary and my journey is similar--though less interesting and successful--than his. Don't stress out about applying to become a whore unless you see it as a good opportunity to learn basic skills. That's all it is for most people.
Do many of you know people in IB that have a relatively substantial net worth under the age of 30? I don't, but I would be interested to see if my friends are abnormal. Money from mom doesn't count.
FYI: In IB you work 60-70 hours but talk about working 80-90. The hours aren't as bad as people say.
I rich, smarts, and totally in debt.1
- In reply to MrDouche
MrDouche:FYI: In IB you work 60-70 hours but talk about working 80-90. The hours aren't as bad as people say.
- Mayor Quimby
- (Senior Monkey, 85 )
- on 1/6/10 at 12:35am
You should read "Work smart not hard" post over at Mergers and Inquisitions. It will help you a lot and give you some ideas how to manage your day.
- TheManWithThePlan
- (Baboon, 102 )
- on 1/6/10 at 12:17pm
Real banker works ass off for 90+ hrs a week, no bullshit in the office, results only, period. Parties when not in the office. This banker is excellent at what he / she does, loves his / her job and senior bankers love them. Even some that try this hard and maybe are not as effective, they are still real bankers.
Wanker banker is "AT" work for 90+ hrs a week, bullshits around for 30+ hours a week (including on WSO, internet, long stupid conversations about nothing, bitches about work, starbucks 5 times a day) and the 60 hrs he/she works its ineffective / slow / error ridden. Thinks he/she is "top of class" but is really bottom.
I'm going to post this in a forum. I like the theme.
I am the Man. I Have the Plan. Follow Me to the Promised Land.
- Bigmonkeyballs
- ?
- (Senior Chimp, 24 )
- on 1/7/10 at 2:29pm
What a humurous post. Thanks for the laughs. I couldn't stop cracking up (no sarcasm).
Don't take some of these tight wads so seriously. Take a look at the WSO poll. Seems as a lot of us are looking for some more funny content. =)
- 1styearBanker
- (Senior Orangutan, 415 )
- on 1/7/10 at 3:26pm
MrDouche: you are retarded, ur friends probably worked at jefferies/piper jaffray. DIAF. I have more networth right now than you ever will and this is as an analyst.1
- In reply to MrDouche
MrDouche:1styearBanker: What are you worth? And how much of it did you earn?
- Marcus_Halberstram
- (Senior Neanderthal, 5,864 )
- on 1/7/10 at 11:01pm
MrDouch, I take it your metric for "earning" is how many $600K ARM mortgages you sold to 70 year old Vietnamese widows in SoCal.
There's a reason you were working with HS dropouts.
Thank you OP for the laugh. I was at my desk cracking up!
- randombetch
- ?
- (Orangutan, 305 )
- on 12/12/10 at 7:25pm
HAHAHA I loved this thread.
Too much shit being thrown around in this thread1
- Jerrey
- (Senior Baboon, 210 )
- on 12/12/10 at 8:19pm
I managed 4 weaks non-stop working with no regular time of sleep. I always tried to decide on whether to use 1, 2 or 3 REM phases (90 minutes each) and distributed them throughout the day.
So I crashed not before the 4th week was over. So I guess it is possible. But your ability to work creatively and inspiredly really requires a huge amount of money and I doubt you can keep on working effectively for 4 weeks. Maybe if it is the project of your life. But truly not regulalry.
I didn't move though. No drive to work. I jsut sat at the desk and did thoughtwork. Maybe that's the difference to your experience. I suppose, to work so effective in a bank, one needs a bed under the desk, or at least some comfortable place next to it.
And having a dog to sleep with you certainly increases your performance again, so you migh only need one REM Phase each day. Given tha you are not learning anything after the 3rd week pitching as an analyst, you might even need only one REM phase ever 3rd day occasionaly.
But, then you don't learn how to pick up girls after hhour, so I guess you need 4 REMs every day, unless you want to be a social inapt freakazoid like that Mega Mind guy from Disney.
... ok it wasn't funny. Nvermind.
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- Aggravate
- (Senior Baboon, 226 )
- on 1/6/11 at 11:35am
One thing to keep in mind is sleep needs vary drastically from one person to another. Additionally environment, like Compbanker said, is a huge factor in determine an individuals limits. Access to food is another huge driver, which in banking should not be a problem.
I went to undergrad at a service academy and probably slept 5 hours a night 6 days a week and then caught 10 hours of rack on Sunday during the academic year. This is pretty standard and easily doable. In Ranger school I slept between 1-3 hours a day for 12 weeks, spent outside on 1 MRE a day. This was absolute hell by design. During deployments I might sleep only a couple hours a day for weeks. This however is not sustainable. The best advice I ever got from one of my battalion commanders was that anything less than 5 hours on average of sleep is unsustainable long term for most people and his officers were required to get 5 hours a night. His rationale was that anything less and your ability to make critical decisions in real time were impaired, jeopardizing readiness and endangering lives. While that scenario isn't applicable to plunking away at Excel or changing slide formatting, the vast majority of people will be useless if they keep up sustained levels of sleep deprivation.
Additionally in iterated work environments there is ample opportunity to catch 30-60 minutes of sleep when you are waiting to get feedback before the next round of edits.1
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Crowdsourcing is being used to identify cities, in tens of thousands photographs taken at night by astronauts, in an effort to reduce their energy consumption and light pollution.
This image of Earth's city lights was created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). Originally designed to view clouds by moonlight, the OLS is also used to map the locations of permanent lights on the Earth's surface. Click here for a larger version.
The Cities at Night project began when some staff and students at a university in Spain noticed that NASA was collecting hundreds of thousands of pictures of the Earth taken from space, of which many were of cities at night, that were unidentified. Geo-positioning information had not been added to the photographs.
The purpose of identifying them is to help the cities to reduce light pollution and energy use. Volunteers are helping to sort the pictures and identify the locations of the images to create maps.
Volunteers are enrolled to help classify the thousands of unpublished images because humans are much more efficient than computers at recognising patterns. Therefore it is possible for anyone to make a significant contribution.
A section on the website contains images of cities that have not yet identified. Volunteers can just click on image and on a location on a map to reconcile them. Then the cities must be geo-referenced, associating a physical map with spatial locations using longitude and latitude coordinates. So for 11,109 volunteers have between them completed 31,000 of the almost 41,000 identified tasks.
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It's easy to identify the cities in this picture: Paris and London, with the Aurora Borealis in the background.
The intensity and the colors of the images could be used to determine the type of lighting used in each city in a way that was not possible before, in order to help reduce the electrical consumption and improve the energy efficiency of street lighting.
According to Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel, before astronauts on the ISS began taking photographs with digital cameras, images were only available for large areas of the Earth that were provided by the DMSP satellite (NOAA), which did not have color information. It was not possible with these pictures to measure the brightness of the most populated areas because they were saturated. But digital cameras, because they are capable of recording in three colors (R, G, B), provide more information and can identify a greater range of light intensities.
Part of the research work is therefore to calibrate the images to determine the flux emitted into space from each region of the Earth. This will make it possible to calculate the lighting energy expenditure in the cities independently of official statistics. Already the research suggests that the minimum expenditure in the EU in street lighting could exceed 4,000 million euros/year.
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The project also wishes to support the fight against light pollution, which destroys the sense that humans have had for thousands of years of their place in the cosmos by preventing a view of the night sky.
It is easy to pinpoint the sources of light from these images that are a very useful tool to fight against light pollution. The archive of images began in 2003, which permits a study of the evolution of the problem.
The photographs are taken by astronauts from NASA, ESA (the European space Agency), CSA-ASC (Canadian Space Agency), ROSCOSMOS (Russian Federal Space Agency) and JAXA (The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency).
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Premium Wines from Oregon and Argentina also featured at annual Grapevine event
Large crowds enjoyed beautifulweather, delicious wines, live entertainment, family fun and more during the 29thAnnual GrapeFest presented by Bank of the West, September 17, 18, 19 and 20.With a salute to the wines of Texas, and the added experience of select winefrom Oregon and Argentina, attendees celebrated along Grapevine's Historic MainStreet throughout the four-day festival.
Guests participating in the People's Choice Wine Tasting Classic,the largest consumer-judged wine competition in the nation, had the opportunityto sample 162 wines from 43 Texas wineries. After sampling the wines, guests thenvoted on their favorites in ten categories.
"The People'sChoice Wine Tasting Classic is the perfect opportunity for festival guests totaste a variety of premium Texas wines. The quality of these wines, paired withthe opportunity to talk with Texas winemakers and winery representatives,showcases one of the most unique wine tasting experiences in the nation," saidDoug Evans, festival co-chair.
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Festival guests were also treated tonew wine experiences including the OregonWine Experience, featuring wineries and winemakers from Oregon and the Argentina Wine Experience, featuringwines from Argentina. Oregon participants included John Bell of Cathedral Ridge Winery, Jennifer Kerrigan of Del RioVineyards, Cara Early of Giradet Winery and Robert Morus of Phelps CreekVineyard. Argentine Wine ConsultantAgustin Alvarado was available to discuss premium Argentine wines includingselections from Antigal Winery andEstates, Family Cecchin, Finca La Linda, Ricardo Santos and TintoNegro.


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Human Rights Foundation Slams Mariah Carey for Angola Concert
after allegedly banking $1 million for a live performance in angola earlier this week. ♪ performing for angolan president jose eduardo dos santos, a man the human rights ..... tyrant. They are slamming the songstress for supporting one of africa 's chief human rights violators. Even circulating this pic
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Prince Harry Visits Landmine Exhibit on Capitol Hill
American tour this trip. It's all about charity . A little bit of soft diplomacy as well ..... world's largest land mine clearance charity it's a cause very close to his mother ..... mother. Was on shortly before her death to Angola . she was on a mission to try and bring
Libyan Unrest and Oil Prices Rile Markets
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April 27, 1994: First Interracial Elections in S. Africa
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Five Ways Your Cell Phone is Making You Ugly
For most of us, our phone is the first and last thing we look at every day. And that's bad . . . because it might be making you ugly.
For most of us, our phone is the first and last thing we look at every day. And that's bad . . . because it might be making you ugly.
There's an instructional video from 1997 that shows kids how to use the internet.
Remember when you saw "Inception" and thought, "Man, thank God people can't really enter my dreams and plant false memories in my head!" Then you sat back for the next two hours totally confused. Well . . . nobody panic, but scientists just performed a successful inception .
here's always something new entering into our digital age. Welcome Tile, the ultra-small answer to never losing anything again. The micro sized device, which never needs a battery and last a full year, can attach to just about anything from bikes and laptops to key rings and purses. Tile advertises itself as "the world's largest lost and found".
To survive in the this new digital age, you must constantly evolve or be left behind. Since the late 1990's until now, there haven been several new additions to the social media family.
If you have Instagram, check your updates in the app store because there is a new feature that might surprise you. If you weren't aware, Facebook owns Instagram; and to challenge the explosion of the popular video app that Twitter brought to the table with Vine, they did what seemed most logical. They brought video to Instagram.
I came across this new app. It's called Speech Jammer and you can do this on anyone.
Back in March, a private company called Mars One announced they were offering free trips to Mars in 2023.
Apparently people today hate listening to voicemails. Anything you need to say can be summarized in a text message until you get a chance to chat in person. Modern etiquette experts are saying you should only leave a voicemail if there's an emergency.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerburg has introduced some radical new changes to the "news feed". This is the biggest change to Facebook since the introduction of the "timeline" in 2011.
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WASHINGTON — With Congress in turmoil, House Speaker John Boehner abruptly informed fellow Republicans on Friday that he would resign from Congress at the end of October, stepping aside in the face of hardline conservative opposition that threatens an institutional crisis.
The recent PBS program on the life of Walt Disney was a real and fun surprise that I watched. Sweet Brother Bill and I grew up with Mickey Mouse, way back in the late 1940s.
Robertson's girls' soccer team took on an especially tough week of practice recently, with the self-ascribed "Beastie Girls" pushing themselves beyond the norm physically and mentally.
As the dust settled and everyone retreated to their homes, Gabriella Montoya asked her coach for a ball so she could get some extra reps in.
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Bernalillo made some real noise for the first two sets Thursday night, but West Las Vegas never quite let the Lady Spartans have the last word.
The Lady Don volleyball team won in three, 25-19, 25-22, 25-12, to move to 6-1 under head coach Eric Zamora.
Jenika Padilla's kill put an end to a first set in which West stayed just enough ahead to keep fans at Gillie Lopez Gym alert.
Hubble, the emaciated dog whose plight galvanized animal lovers around the state and prompted city officials to step up how they handle animal abuse and neglect cases, has died.
NMDOG, the Rio Rancho nonprofit that was paying the veterinarian bills for Hubble, announced on its Facebook page Wednesday that he had died.
"RIP our Hero Dog HUBBLE," the organization posted. "I am so sorry Village ... but I am without words. Please allow us some time to grieve."
Officials at New Mexico Highlands University received both good and bad news on enrollment recently.
The good news is that total enrollment at Highlands for the fall semester that's under way is up by 23 students, an increase of less than 1 percent. The bad news is that enrollment on the main campus is actually down slightly, with 24 fewer students attending the Las Vegas campus, a drop of roughly 1.1 percent.
"I'm pleased we are up a bit overall on headcount," Highlands President Sam Minner told the Optic on Thursday.
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The attorney representing embattled Secretary of State Dianna Duran declared her client's innocence Wednesday and defended her decision to ask a judge for more time to mount a defense.
Attorney Erlinda Johnson has filed a request seeking to push back a deadline next month for filing motions in the case and a preliminary hearing that's scheduled for late October.
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Restaurants in Hawaii
Located inside the Waikiki Parc Hotel, this upscale Japanese-Peruvian fusion restaurant is part of an international chain owned by world-renowned chef Nobu Matsuhisa.
Lines often extend out the door at this family-owned eatery, a North Shore landmark since 1951. The homemade shaved ice is available in 36 flavors, ranging from watermelon and raspberry to island-inspired flavors like guava and lilikoi (passion fruit).
Eskimo Candy is the nickname for the belly strip of a smoked salmon and the inspiration for this small seafood market and café in Kihei. Ocean murals cover the walls, nets cluttered with starfish dangle from the ceiling, and giant rubber shark heads hang behind the wood-paneled counter.
This Big Island coffeehouse and café is situated along Akoni Pule Highway, near Keawaeli Bay.
Depart from typical island fare at this white-tablecloth French restaurant in the historic former whaling village of Lahaina.
Set on the bank of the Hanalei River, this celebrated seafood restaurant serves fresh local fish at riverside tables shaded by bright blue umbrellas. Seating is also available in the open-air dining room, which is furnished with exposed wood and fishing nets.
A joint venture between chef Hiroshi Fukui and master sommelier Chuck Furuya, Hiroshi Eurasian Tapas was established to showcase Fukui's skill at preparing Japanese cuisine and Furuya's talent for pairing wines with Asian fare.
Posh hotel restaurant and lounge. On Friday and Saturday nights, the W hotel's Diamond Head Grill transforms into the Wonder Lounge, a multi-bar club with DJs and dancing.
What A flaming-red shrimp shack, in Kahuku, near the Turtle Bay Resort, Romy's serves up its signature giant prawns wok-seared in butter with generous chunks of toasted garlic—it's a vampire-free zone.
The bright blue exterior and dangling party lights outside Cafe des Ami set the tone for this casual cafe known for its crepes and curries.
What started out as a taco wagon, this eatery evolved after many years into a fixed restaurant in the Halele'a Building about a mile from the Hanalei Bridge on Kuhio Highway.
A Honolulu institution, the Willows was founded by Kathleen Perry and her husband, Al, on July 4, 1944 to help Kathleen's family maintain their property during the tough economic times of World War II.


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Great Day in Ogunquit
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Another beach sign. Then the Welcome to Ogunquit Town Line and we then entered Wells, Maine!
We walked from Ogunquit to Wells! Now we had to walk all the way back. Easy feat after walking all these miles this week.
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We saw this lone sailboat.
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Signals of the Corporate Death Spiral #1 - Talking about dress codes
We have probably all been, at one time in our careers, in an organization where things were not going so well. Maybe sales were down due to increased competition, maybe our products and services were not in alignment with what the market was demanding, or maybe we flat-out had exhausted the supply of every customer who might want one or two of whatever it is we were offering. There are probably thousands of reasons why once successful organizations can fall on hard times.
But often, especially when working in a classic support function like IT or HR, we are not immediately aware of just how bad things are becoming for the organization overall. Sure, the CHRO probably has some idea of what is going on, when he/she is asked to provide some numbers on potential staffing reduction scenarios, but often awareness of these plans does not reach very far down into the organization until, of course, it is too late for impacted folks to react or 'pro' act, if you get my meaning.
So for rank and file folks, who are always the last to know everything, it pays to get attuned to the signs or signals that things in the organization might not be going as well as they once were. These are smaller, more subtle kinds of things that are not as dramatic as a layoff or a C-level shakeup, but might be as important nonetheless, as they point to a present and future that might not be as fun and gamesy as the past.
What are some of these signals? First up, courtesy of our pals at venerable technology giant HP is the 'Dress Code Crackdown'. Check this excerpt from The Register:
Troubled HP has hit upon what it thinks is a terrific idea to revive its fortunes: tell techies to leave their T-shirts and shorts at home and obey the corporate "smart casual" dress code instead.
Some R&D teams within HP Enterprise Services were sent a confidential memo this week reminding them to follow the IT giant's rules against workplace fashion faux pas, The Register has learned.
"If you aren't dressed like the models in the posters that HP displays around its locations, then your appearance is sapping the productivity of the workers around you," one source, who asked to remain anonymous, quipped.
The dress code memo was sent out because higher-ups believe customers visiting HP's offices will be put off by scruffy-looking R&D engineers, we're told.
The order to tuck in shirts and smarten up for guests has not gone down well, apparently: some HP developers, who do not deal with customers directly, were quite enjoying wearing T-shirts and shorts at work during these warm summer months.
According to HP, men should avoid turning up to the office in T-shirts with no collars, faded or torn jeans, shorts, baseball caps and other headwear, sportswear, and sandals and other open shoes. Women are advised not to wear short skirts, faded or torn jeans, low-cut dresses, sandals, crazy high heels, and too much jewelry.
The Enterprise Services division employs more than 100,000 people across the world, from the UK and Australia to India and Germany, as well as cities in the US.
"There are customers around, and HP doesn't want them to think riffraff work here," one source told El Reg.
Nice. At least HP is sticking to the script and the classic reasoning of the dress code police - that 'customers' somehow might be offended if they spot a coder in a T-shirt and a hoodie.
What matters here has nothing at all to do with customers, or even if there are really some technical folks at HP that are going a little too far with 'coder casual' attire at work. No company has a 'dress code' problem. They might have a few people here and there that need a little bit of guidance, sure. But when organizations, especially massive ones like HP start going off with internal memos about dress codes and posting up examples of 'acceptable' dress, then you can be sure there are problems far, far worse than the Queensryche T-shirt that Jeremy wore last Tuesday.
It is a signal, and an ominous one at that.
When you are talking about dress codes you are not talking about things that really matter. And often it is because you've run out of ideas for how to attack the things that do matter.
If you are in a company and get one of those memos, take it as a sign that worse news is coming. and maybe sooner than you think.
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Immunity to Francisella
ABSTRACT In recent years, studies on the intracellular pathogen Francisella tularensis have greatly intensified, generating a wealth of new information on the interaction of this organism with the immune system. Here we review the basic elements of the innate and adaptive immune responses that contribute to protective immunity against Francisella species, with special emphasis on new data that has emerged in the last 5 years. Most studies have utilized the mouse model of infection, although there has been an expansion of work on human cells and other new animal models. In mice, basic immune parameters that operate in defense against other intracellular pathogen infections, such as interferon gamma, TNF-α, and reactive nitrogen intermediates, are central for control of Francisella infection. However, new important immune mediators have been revealed, including IL-17A, Toll-like receptor 2, and the inflammasome. Further, a variety of cell types in addition to macrophages are now recognized to support Francisella growth, including epithelial cells and dendritic cells. CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells are clearly important for control of primary infection and vaccine-induced protection, but new T cell subpopulations and the mechanisms employed by T cells are only beginning to be defined. A significant role for B cells and specific antibodies has been established, although their contribution varies greatly between bacterial strains of lower and higher virulence. Overall, recent data profile a pathogen that is adept at subverting host immune responses, but susceptible to many elements of the immune system's antimicrobial arsenal.
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- "Fish & Shellfish Immunology vaccination with killed bacteria induces an antibody response with only limited protection [16]. Production of membrane vesicles by cells is a conserved mechanism occurring throughout all domains of life [17]. "
Article: Vaccination with outer membrane vesicles from Francisella noatunensis reduces development of francisellosis in a zebrafish model[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Infection of fish with the facultative intracellular bacterium Francisella noatunensis remains an unresolved problem for aquaculture industry worldwide as it is difficult to vaccinate against without using live attenuated vaccines. Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are biological structures shed by Gramnegative bacteria in response to various environmental stimuli. OMVs have successfully been used to vaccinate against both intracellular and extracellular pathogens, due to an ability to stimulate innate, cell-mediated and humoral immune responses. We show by using atomic force and electron microscopy that the fish pathogenic bacterium E noatunensis subspecies noatunensis (F.n.n.) shed OMVs both in vitro into culture medium and in vivo in a zebrafish infection model. The main protein constituents of the OMV are IgIC, PdpD and PdpA, all known Francisella virulence factors, in addition to the outer membrane protein FopA and the chaperonin GroEL, as analyzed by mass spectrometry. The vesicles, when used as a vaccine, reduced proliferation of the bacterium and protected zebrafish when subsequently challenged with a high dose of F.n.n. without causing adverse effects for the host. Also granulomatous responses were reduced in F.n.n.-challenged zebrafish after OMV vaccination. Taken together, the data support the possible use of OMVs as vaccines against francisellosis in fish. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.Fish & Shellfish Immunology 10/2014; 42(1). DOI:10.1016/j.fsi.2014.10.025 · 2.67 Impact Factor
- "The results of studies on immune response to Francisella e mainly conducted on the murine model utilizing live vaccine strain e have documented a significant role for B cells in controlling F. tularensis infection. It is generally accepted that B cell impact on the protection against Francisella infection mainly varies between bacterial strains of lower and higher virulence [6] [7]. A recent study, directed to defining the requirements for protection against virulent F. tularensis and utilizing a convalescent murine model of infection, demonstrated, however, that abTCR-positive cells, gdTCR-positive cells, as well as B cells are necessary in order to survive primary SchuS4 infection [8]. "
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ABSTRACT: Francisella tularensis, a facultative intracellular Gram-negative bacterium, causes the illness tularemia. The infection of mice with live vaccine strain is considered to be a model of human tularemia. F. tularensis infects predominantly such phagocytic cells as macrophages or neutrophils, but it also infects non-phagocytic hepatocytes, epithelial cells, and murine and human B cell lines. Based on work with the murine tularemia model, we report here that F. tularensis LVS infects peritoneal CD19+ cells – exclusively B-1a cells – early after intraperitoneal infection in vivo. The peritoneal and consequently spleen CD19+ cells are activated by the F. tularensis LVS infection to express the activation markers from MHC class II, CD25, CD54, CD69, and the co-stimulatory molecules CD80 and CD86. As early as 12 h post-infection, the peritoneal CD19+ cells produce IFN-γ, IL-1β, IL-4, IL-6, IL-12, IL-17, IL-23, and TNF-α. The spleen CD19+ cells respond to infection with some delay. Moreover, the F. tularensis infected A20 B cell line activates CD3+ spleen cells isolated from naïve mice. Thus, the data presented here suggest that B cells have all the attributes to actively participate in the induction and regulation of the adaptive immune response during early stages of F. tularensis infection.Microbial Pathogenesis 10/2014; 75. DOI:10.1016/j.micpath.2014.08.009 · 1.79 Impact Factor
- "Mice infected with a sublethal infectious dose generate a robust antibody response characterized by specific IgG2 and IgM.107 Rats generate a similar antibody profile against F. tularensis LVS.110 Although antibodies are induced against a variety of bacterial antigens, a large proportion of the humoral response is directed against LPS in both mice and humans.111–113 "
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ABSTRACT: Francisella tularensis is an intracellular Gram-negative bacterium that causes life-threatening tularemia. Although the prevalence of natural infection is low, F. tularensis remains a tier I priority pathogen due to its extreme virulence and ease of aerosol dissemination. F. tularensis can infect a host through multiple routes, including the intradermal and respiratory routes. Respiratory infection can result from a very small inoculum (ten organisms or fewer) and is the most lethal form of infection. Following infection, F. tularensis employs strategies for immune evasion that delay the immune response, permitting systemic distribution and induction of sepsis. In this review we summarize the current knowledge of F. tularensis in an immunological context, with emphasis on the host response and bacterial evasion of that response.Infection and Drug Resistance 09/2014; 7:239-51. DOI:10.2147/IDR.S53700


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I am now a paid developer of the Apple App Store and am trying to upload an app. But whenever I try it comes up with the error,
Application failed codesign verification. The signature was invalid, contains disallowed entitlements, or it was not signed with an iPhone Distribution Certificate.
I am very concerned and scared that I have wasted €80. Could you guys please help me with this, I am so confused.
Follow the walk-thru and links (specifically the first one in the first sentence) in TN 2250
and TN 2294 Code Validation and Submission Issues for iOS (recently updated)
and iTunes Connect Help /
Your First App Store Submission (new 2.16)
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Taipei, Taiwan—First lady Michelle Obama's selection of a second Jason Wu-designed gown for this week's inauguration balls may have assured the designer a place in the annals of history—not to mention the Smithsonian where the gown will be displayed—but such notoriety might even help with some legal issues.
On the same day FLOTUS wore the ruby dress for all the world to see, Taiwan's Intellectual Property Court refused—for a second time—to grant trademark status to Wu's diffusion label, Miss Wu.
While Wu, 30, who emigrated from Taiwan to Canada at age 9, has successfully registered his Miss Wu brand in the United States and many EU countries, the Taiwanese court rejected Miss Wu as being too generic. It seems that "Wu" is a fairly common family name in Taiwan and "Miss Wu is just a title and cannot be exclusively associated with Jason Wu."
The designer applied for the trademarks in 2011 for his haute couture and accessories lines, which the court approved.
'Miss Wu' to Get Some Respect?
Arguing that "Miss Wu" symbolizes feminism—characteristic of his designs, Wu had also said it sounded the hoot of an owl, the bird depicted on its logo.
The Miss Wu brand, which is carried at Nordstrom, has a more "downtown" aesthetic with the 40-piece Spring/Summer 2013 collection retailing between about $195 to $795.
But the clamor surrounding Obama's pick of a Jason Wu gown for a second momentous occasion may help clinch the trademark for Wu in Taiwan.
Speaking to Focus Taiwan, Wang Mei-hua, director-general of the Intellectual Property office reportedly said if first ladies Michelle Obama and Taiwan's Chow Mei-ching are seen wearing dresses from the Miss Wu brand, it may help distinguish Miss Wu from being too generic.
"Approval is likely if he tries again this year with more evidence showing that Miss Wu has been accepted as a brand by local consumers," Wang Mei-hua said.
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